When you have so much fun working on something, it shows in the final product.

'We had complete 'dhamaal' through and through. With standing total of over Rs 140 crore, the Zoya Akhtar directorial, which opened on February 14, managed to mint over Rs 100 crore in first week itself.Īctors like Ajay Devgn, Madhuri Dixit Nene, Anil Kapoor and Boman Irani then took the audience on a fun ride with 'Total Dhamaal', which has raked in over Rs 150 crore at the box office. Then the box office got a new wave of energy with Ranveer Singh and Alia Bhatt in 'Gully Boy', a film on street rappers of Mumbai. Released on January 25, the film collected Rs 52.40 crore at the domestic box-office in five days. It was followed by the return of 'queen' Kangana Ranaut with 'Manikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi', which brought the story of Rani Laxmibai alive on the silver screen. Though the film opened with first day box office of Rs 8 crore, it has already crossed the Rs 250-crore mark. The year started with Vicky Kaushal-starrer 'Uri: The Surgical Strike' tracing the real-life events of the 2016 Uri attack and its aftermath, taking the Indian box office by storm. It is a boon for filmmakers and boon for cinema loving people as well,' Johar added. 'If the content is good, both big and small are working. Technically, we are up by 15-20 per cent in terms of box office cumulative figures vis-A-vis last quarter,' film and trade expert Girish Johar told IANS. We have given back-to-back box office biggies.

Gully boy box office collection